cannonade

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: can=non=ade

CIDE DICTIONARY

cannonade, n. [F. Canonnade; cf. It. cannanata.].

•  The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.  [1913 Webster]

  "A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.  [1913 Webster]

  "Blue Walden rolls its cannonade."  [1913 Webster]

cannonade, v. t. 

 To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.  [1913 Webster]

cannonade, v. i. 

 To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cannonade, n. & v.
--n. a period of continuous heavy gunfire.
--v.tr. bombard with a cannonade.

Etymology

F f. It. cannonata

THESAURUS

cannonade

aim at, air raid, antiaircraft barrage, barrage, blast, blitz, blitzkrieg, bomb, bombard, bombardment, boom, booming, box barrage, broadside, burst, cannon, cannonry, commence firing, creeping barrage, drumfire, emergency barrage, enfilade, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, fusillade, growl, grumble, hail, lightning attack, lightning war, mortar, mortar barrage, normal barrage, open fire, open up on, peal, pepper, pop at, rake, roar, roll, rumble, salvo, shell, shoot, shoot at, shower, snipe, snipe at, spray, standing barrage, strafe, strafing, take aim at, torpedo, volley, zero in on

ROGET THESAURUS

cannonade

Attack

N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.